Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9781032093697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Hande Gurses; Irmak Ertuna Howison

Opis

The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape.

Spis treści

Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Ecocriticism, World Literature, and Pedagogies  PART I: Anatolian Landscapes, History, Gender, and Trauma  1. "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia": The Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics of Confronting the Past in Turkey  2. Grape Gatherers and Goat Herders: The Portrayal of Anatolian Village Women’s Interaction with the Natural Environment in Contemporary Turkish Film  PART 2: Non-Human Subjectivities  3. Human Violence, Nature and Poetry in Murathan Mungan’s Şair’in Romanı (The Poet’s Novel)  4. Rethinking the Subject, Reimagining Worlds in Bilge Karasu’s A Long Day’s Evening and Sema Kaygusuz’s The Sultan and the Poet  5. Writing Beyond the Species Boundary: Bilge Karasu’s The Garden of Departed Cats and Sema Kaygusuz’s Wine and Gold  PART 3: Animals of/as Sovereignty  6. Dogs of Modernity  7. Violence and the Validation of Male Identities Through Canine Others in Kaan Mujdeci’s Sivas (2014) and Emin Alper’s Frenzy (Abluka, 2015)  8. Encounter with Snakes in Fakir Baykurt’s Yılanların Öcü (Revenge of the Snakes)

O autorze

Hande Gurses is a lecturer at the Comparative Literature Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Irmak Ertuna Howison received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University. Her teaching and research interests include feminist crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy, literary theory and criticism.